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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEicE.

BENJ. S. PARDEE, OF MOUNT CARMEL, AND ',LHOS. RAXVLING, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

UPHOLSTERY-NAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,670, dated October 4, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, BENJAMIN S. PAR- DEE, of Mount Carmel, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, and THOMAS RAWLING, of the city of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Kind of Nail or Tack for Carriage-Trimming, U holstery, and other Purposes; and we o hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a longitudinal View of our nail. Fig. 2, is a top view of the same. Fig. 3, is a longitudinal view of the nail on a greatly enlarged scale with it-S paper head in section. Fig. 4, is a top view of the paper head without the nail.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Our invention consists in a paper headed nail or tack constructed substantially as hereinafter described and constituting a new article of manufacture.

A, is the nail or tack made of iron, brass or other suitable metal resembling an ordinary cut tack, except that instead of a flat head, it has a head a, of rounded form as eX- hibited in Figs. l and 3. If made of iron we intend it to be either entirely silvered or to have the head a, silvered.

B, is the paper head much larger than the head a, which is simply intended to form a cap. This head B, is made by compressing paper pulp in a mold or die of suitable form, and with av hole b, (Fig. 4) in the center, of such size that the nail or tack will drive very tightly into it, and it may be colored black, brown or any other color by the introduction of suitable coloring matter into the pulp. After molding, the said head B, is allowed to dry and is then varnished previously to the introduction of the nail or tack which is driven or forced into it by a drop or press down to the cap a, so tightly that the Said head cannot be detached therefrom by accident. The paper-headed nail or tack thus constructed may be driven into wood or other substances which it is capable of penetrating` up to the head B, without any danger of splitting the said head and in this respect is much more serviceable than the ivory headed or bone headed nails heretofore used for carriage trimming besides which it can be made much cheaper and of a more varied and ornamental character.

What we claim as our invention as a new article of manufacture and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The paper-headed nail or tack constructed substantially as herein described.

BENJAMIN S. PARDEE. THOMAS RAVLING. Vitnesses:

WM. FREEMAN, GEO. BRADLEY, 

